One hundred faculty appointed across twenty departments
Principal Frida Phelps welcomes the College’s first teaching staff.
Now accepting founding students
A college on the South Side, built for the students others overlooked.
O’Block Community College opens in Parkway Gardens with twenty subject areas, one hundred faculty and a single way in.
Admission to the College
“Why do humans have two eyes?”
That is the whole application. No test scores, no fees, no essays about your extracurriculars. One question, one answer — and we read every one ourselves.
How admission works
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Von Studies
Led by Professor Helmudt Schmidt. Concerned mainly with law and order. The rest is disclosed on arrival.
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Twenty subject areas
From Anthropology to Sociology, taught by faculty who chose to be here.
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Meet the faculty
One hundred teachers, researchers and mentors — search the full directory.
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Flagship programme
Von Studies
Few programmes are discussed as much and explained as little. Von Studies, led by Professor Helmudt Schmidt, is the College’s signature course of study. It is concerned — mainly — with law and order.
Beyond that, we are not at liberty to say.
What we can tell you
The College in numbers
Small by design. Serious by choice.
1question stands between you and a place
20subject areas to choose from
100faculty across the sciences, arts and professions
$0application fee
News
From the College
Von Studies admits its first three students
Gerbert Zacharias, Friedrich Kant and Immanuel Nietzsche are the first to be accepted into the College’s most selective programme.
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“There is no wrong answer. There are unexamined ones.”
The admissions panel explains what it looks for in an answer to the question.
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It takes one answer. Take as long as you need to write it.